Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90016-3
Zhang Fu Xue
{"title":"The method to increase reliability of piezoelectric angular rate sensors","authors":"Zhang Fu Xue","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90016-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90016-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>TQC (Total Quality Control) and elimination of the early failure can make the average lifetime of PARS (Piezoelectric Angular Rate Sensors) increase by 8·95 and 9·20 times, respectively. With the two methods, the lived distributions of uniaxial and triaxial PARS are also Weibull distributions. The MTBF are 20 250 and 6750 hours, respectively, i.e. increase by 20·92 and 20·96 times.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":"Pages 15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90016-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82455072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90020-5
Ali M. Rushdi
{"title":"Capacity function-preserving star-delta transformations in flow networks","authors":"Ali M. Rushdi","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90020-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90020-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of pseudo-switching (PS) functions has definite advantages in representing nonbinary discrete random functions, usually encountered in the study of flow networks. That concept is utilized in the development of star-delta and delta-star transformations that preserve the source-to-terminal (s−t) capacity function in a flow network. The usefulness of these transformations in reducing complex networks to equivalent series-parallel ones is illustrated by examples. The resulting series-parallel networks are easily solvable for the networks s−t capacity function, which is a compact expression of the probability mass function (p.m.f.) of the maximum s−t flow.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":"Pages 49-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90020-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77718447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90082-5
D.B. Parkinson
{"title":"Quadric reliability indices","authors":"D.B. Parkinson","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90082-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90082-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Limit state models based on multi-dimensional rotational paraboloids and hyperboloids are described, and approximate closed form solutions obtained for the associated failure probability and corresponding reliability index. The solutions presented depend only on the number of variables, minimum distance of the limit state surface from the origin and mean curvature at the design point, in a standard normal space. These results extend the range of analytic solutions for reliability indices, from linear and spherical surfaces, to include these rotational quadrics, and so permit a wider choice of limit state models.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"17 1","pages":"Pages 23-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90082-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84935846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90003-5
B.R. Martin, R.I. Wright
{"title":"A practical method of common cause failure modelling","authors":"B.R. Martin, R.I. Wright","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90003-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90003-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The need arose in a large team of safety assessors for a standard method of treating common cause failures to be defined so that a consistent approach could be followed across a range of projects. The requirements of the model were: acceptability, applicability, flexibility and consistency. It was found by combining the ß-factor model with limiting values and allowing the value of β to reduce as the protection against CCF increases, it was possible to meet the objectives of the model. An example of the use of the model is included.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"19 3","pages":"Pages 185-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90003-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79261609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90032-1
Jerzy Filus
{"title":"The load optimization of a repairable system with gamma-distributed time-to-failure","authors":"Jerzy Filus","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90032-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90032-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider a system which supports a load in such a way that the profit earned by the system for one time unit is a continuous and increasing function of the amount of the load. The time-to-failure distribution of the system is assumed to be gamma. Both parameters of the distribution are continuous functions of the load such that the mean time-to-failure is a decreasing function of the load.</p><p>The system earns the profit only when it is on. When it is off, it is repaired, and the losses are assumed to be proportional to the repair time. We define the average asymptotic gain earned by the system in a single time unit; this quantity can be thought of as a system efficiency measure.</p><p>Assuming that the load is a controllable variable, the goal is to find a value of the load that maximizes the so-defined efficiency. To model the relationship between the load and the parameters of the time-to-failure distribution (gamma) as well as the relation between the load and the profit, power and exponential functions have been taken.</p><p>The analytical conditions for the existence of maximum positive gain and the analysis of the behaviour of the gain as the load varies are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"18 4","pages":"Pages 275-284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90032-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90089047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90099-0
I.P. Schagen
{"title":"A new model for software failure","authors":"I.P. Schagen","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90099-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90099-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new model is proposed for the occurence of errors during software testing which assumes that software is composed of distinct sections and these sections are activated randomly as testing progresses. This model has been fitted to an extensive set of data, and useful insights can be given as to the number of errors remaining to be detected in future testing phases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"18 3","pages":"Pages 205-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90099-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88006979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90041-2
M. Ichikawa
{"title":"An extension of the reliability-based design method for variable amplitude fatigue","authors":"M. Ichikawa","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90041-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90041-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The reliability-based design method for variable amplitude fatigue proposed previously by the present author will be extended so that it covers the case where not only the critical cumulative cycle ratio but also the applied cumulative cycle ratio have considerable scatter. The method is practical since it does not require a large amount of fatigue tests and load measurements to be conducted under the relevant variable amplitude loading.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"17 3","pages":"Pages 181-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90041-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88385118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reliability EngineeringPub Date : 1987-01-01Epub Date: 2003-03-05DOI: 10.1016/0143-8174(87)90090-4
D.C. Bley, W.B. Reuland
{"title":"Application of a process flow model to a shutdown nuclear plant probabilistic safety assessment","authors":"D.C. Bley, W.B. Reuland","doi":"10.1016/0143-8174(87)90090-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90090-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101070,"journal":{"name":"Reliability Engineering","volume":"17 4","pages":"241-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-8174(87)90090-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72258895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}